Austin is an engineer, entrepreneur, and lidar industry pioneer for autonomous vehicles. He founded Luminar in 2012 with a mission to usher in a new era of vehicle safety and autonomy. After years of ground-up technology development and breakthroughs, he has grown it into a global public company working with 50 industry partners, including the majority of global automotive OEMs. From Volvo Cars and Mercedes-Benz for consumer vehicles and Daimler Trucks for commercial trucks, to tech partners NVIDIA and Intel’s Mobileye, Luminar is poised to be the first automotive technology company to enable next-generation safety and autonomous capabilities for production vehicles.